Ganitatilaka (Sanskrit text and English introduction)
by H. R. Kapadia | 1937 | 49,274 words
The Sanskrit text of the Ganitatilaka with an English introduction and Appendices. Besides the critically-edited text, this edition also includes the commentary of Simhatilaka Suri. The Ganitatilaka is an 11th-century Indian mathematical text composed entirely of Sanskrit verses and authored by astronomer-mathematician Shripati. The text itself dea...
Part 9 - Classifications of numbers
As was the case with early Greeks, the Jaina school, too, does not consider one as a number. This will be evident from the following line of the 146 th sutra of Anuyogadvara:- "se kim tam gananasamkha ? ekko gananam na ubei, duppabhii samkha "3 While explaining this portion Maladharin Hemacandra remarks as under:When an object like a pot is seen, what one realises is only a pot and not its number; or, he adds, it may be due to the fact that in ordinary dealings only one thing, if given or taken, is mostly not taken into account. Thus the Jainas begin with two and end, of course, with the highest possible type of infinity. All these numbers can be grouped under 21 heads. These we shall deal with, a little bit later. For the present we shall mention 4 types referred to in the 316 th sutra of Sthanamga.
3 Sanskrit rendering:- atha kim sa gananasankhya ? eko gananam nopaiti, dviprabhrti sakhya |